CHAPTER FORTY SIX
December 18
1:00 p.m. Israel Time
Mount Herzl Cemetery
Jerusalem, Israel
It was a sea of people.
The mourners, thousands of them, walked quietly through Mount Herzl, the military cemetery. The body of Daria Shalit had been returned to Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. Hezbollah claimed she had been killed in the Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon. The Israelis claimed she had been shot at close range, execution style, by her captors, probably moments after her abduction.
So it went.
The people who knew her stood in the center of the massive crowd, near her freshly dug grave. Luke, Ed, Trudy, and Swann stood high on a green hill, overlooking the scene. Luke and Ed wore United States Army uniforms, flown in especially for the occasion. Trudy
